Soaring above a labyrinth of Roman and medieval rooftiles, the magnificent Romanesque-Gothic campanile of Split's Cathedral of Saint Domnius commands this striking early-century view of Spalato — the octagonal mausoleum of Emperor Diocletian visible to the right, its ancient stone repurposed as one of the world's oldest cathedrals still in use, a living testament to seventeen centuries of continuous worship begun when Diocletian himself retired here in 305 AD. The red bilingual caption reads Split, Stolna Crkva i zvonik / Spalato, Duomo col campanile in Croatian and Italian, reflecting the contested Dalmatian coast where Austrian, Italian, and Slavic identities collided — within a decade of this card's printing the entire region would be convulsed by World War I and the collapse of Habsburg rule. Published in 1909 by the prestigious Dresden house of Stengel & Co., whose finely detailed halftone photographic cards were distributed across the Austrian littoral and prized by collectors worldwide, this is a superb document of Diocletian's palace district as it appeared before mass tourism transformed it.